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The relation of God and salvation is not primarily a problem to be solved. Rather, it is the blazing core of Christian doctrine, where the triune nature of God and the truth of the gospel come together. Accordingly, a healthy Christian theology must confess the doctrine of the Trinity and the doctrine of salvation as closely related, mutually illuminating, and strictly ordered. When the two doctrines are left unconnected, both suffer. The doctrine of the Trinity begins to seem altogether irrelevant to salvation history and Christian experience, while soteriology meanwhile becomes naturalized, losing its transcendent reference. If they are connected too tightly, on the other hand, human salvation seems inherent to the divine reality itself. Deftly navigating this tension, Fountain of Salvation relates them by expounding the doctrine of eternal processions and temporal missions, ultimately showing how they inherently belong together. The theological vision expounded here by Fred Sanders is one in which the holy Trinity is the source of salvation in a direct and personal way, as the Father sends the Son and the Holy Spirit to enact an economy of revelation and redemption. Individual chapters show how this vision informs the doctrines of atonement, ecclesiology, Christology, and pneumatology--all while directly engaging with major modern interpreters of the doctrine of the Trinity. As Sanders affirms throughout this in-depth theological treatise, the triune God is the fountain from which all other doctrine flows--and no understanding of salvation is complete that does not begin there.
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The complex nature of Christian communion with a personal God requires a nuanced expression. Since its inception, the early church affirmed God’s unknowable nature and also participation in God through Christ. The church fathers employed the language of theosis in talking about union with God and human transformation in the likeness of God. However, the term theosis or deification is a broad category and requires precise explanation to avoid human dissolution into the divine in the mystical union it attempts to describe. In Triadosis, Eduard Borysov offers a new approach to the conundrum of the imparticipable divine nature and the prospect of personal union between human and the Trinity. Most significantly, he proposes that if God is Trinity, then we are created and restored in the image of the same tri-personal God.
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The main question of this Element is how the existence, supremacy, and uniqueness of an almighty and immaterial God bear on our own nature. It aims to uncover lessons about what we are by thinking about what God might be. A dominant theme is that Abrahamic monotheism is a surprisingly hospitable framework within which to defend and develop the view that we are wholly material beings. But the resulting materialism cannot be of any standard variety. It demands revisions and twists on the usual views. We can indeed learn about ourselves by learning about God. One thing we learn is that, though we are indeed wholly material beings, we're not nearly as ordinary as we might seem.
Monotheism --- Psychology. --- Pantheism --- Religion --- Theism --- Trinity --- Polytheism
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"Die Wirklichkeit »sakramental« zu verstehen macht die Schöpfung durchscheinend für Gottes Herrlichkeit. Diese Sicht schwindet jedoch zunehmend. Die vorliegende Studie baut auf einer trinitarischen Ontologie auf und entfaltet dieses Wirklichkeitsverständnis mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Sicht auf den Menschen theologisch. Dabei sind folgende Fragen leitend: Welche Auswirkungen für die Schöpfung hat es, dass Gott als Trinität das Universum geschaffen hat? Sind diese Auswirkungen in der Schöpfung erkennbar? Was bedeutet es für das Verständnis des Menschen, dass er Gottes Ebenbild ist? In vier Teilen zeigt die Studie die erschließende Kraft »sakramentalen« Denkens auf. Nach grundsätzlichen Überlegungen zum »sakramentalen« Wirklichkeitsverständnis folgt eine biblische Vergewisserung dieses Verständnisses anhand anthropologischer Fragen. Anschließend wird »sakramentales« Denken an Cyrill von Jerusalem, Odo Casel und Paul Tillich erprobt. Im Blick auf den ökumenischen Bereich werden exemplarisch orthodoxe (Dumitru Staniloae) und protestantische Autoren (Wilfried Härle, Gerhard Sauter) sowie eine Studie des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen auf »sakramentales« Denken hin untersucht."
Philosophical theology --- Ontology --- Sacraments --- Trinity --- Religious aspects
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"A leading Christian theologian presents the biblical and theological foundations of trinitarian classical theism"--
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Richard of Saint-Victor’s On The Trinity from the 12th century is a main source for our understanding of a leading intellectual tradition of the Western world in which love was regarded the highest and the best in the human world and therefore also was the reality in which the highest and the best, God, was to be seen. Richard understands human love as interpersonal so that love must be realized between two persons, but for being the highest love that excludes any private and selfish love, both loving persons must share their love with a third person.
Christian theology --- Christian dogmatics --- Amour --- Love --- Trinity --- Trinity. --- Trinité --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity.
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